Archive for May, 2008

Getting into Work

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Wondering how working is going for me?  Challenging so far just because everything is so new… everything… well, except my gadgets and gizmos.  I’m still very familiar with them.

So, what am I doing today?  Well, all of my audio equipment hasn’t been tested in nearly a year and before I begin planning any recording project, [...]

Ndege ya Karatasi

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Paper Airplane

The walk between home and the office is about 12 minutes each way.  I am developing a routine of coming to eat lunch with Dana and Asher.  Today, Dana was away having tea and lunch with some new friends so I had to fend for myself.  PB & J and a big fat carrot [...]

Big Cultural Struggle for me

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

It appears living in a different culture is going to be more difficult than I was allowing myself to realize. Here’s the situation:
We have quite a few of our things (mainly baby items gifted to us while in the States) on a couple of pallets that were shipped air freight to Dar es Salaam. [...]

Mazoezi ya Treni III

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

So I hit the wall of people many cars before I am able to see the dogs.  No choice.  Gotta go.  Long legs help a lot in stepping over people… and their children… and their bags… and a little of everything else they seem to be traveling with by train.
It took me about 15 minutes [...]

Mizigo Mizito

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Heavy Luggage
I’ll pick up the rest of Mazoezi ya Treni later.  I wanted to show you a shot of what we traveled with to Tanzania.  This is a fully loaded Isuzu Rodeo.  The only space on the inside was a sliver of seat in the back middle for Dana, Asher’s car seat mounted next to [...]

Mazoezi ya Treni II

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Okay, so I meant the day after the day after tomorrow in my last post. Let’s continue…
There were two guys, one younger one older, in the cargo ‘office’ when I appeared in the doorway. Time to kick in the Swahili memory because Theo and Teddy’s existence may very well depend on it! [...]

Mazoezi ya Treni

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Train Exercises
Time to quit unpacking all waken hours of the day and sit down to blog for a minute. Too many cool things happening for me to let them go untyped.
This past Monday morning, we awoke just before 5am to begin loading the taxi bus with our mound ‘o luggage. Out of all [...]